VCP6 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VCP6 qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCP6 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.029% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

VCP6 falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,994 4,745 7,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.39% 34.58% 36.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,466 2,771 4,575
10th Percentile £263 £215 £250
25th Percentile £402 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £645
90th Percentile £703 £700 £710
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -1.52% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 841 363 781
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61.18 £67.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.48 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -35.51% -15.55% +2.62%

VCP6
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCP6 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VCP6 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VCP6
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCP6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCP6

VCP6
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCP6.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCP6

VCP6
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCP6 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland - 2 £463 - 1
VCP6
UK

VCP6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) NCDA
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware